 | James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig - Religion - 2003 - 673 pages
...equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative . . . time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate...true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year. II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar... | |
 | Kennedy, John Bernard Kennedy - Philosophy - 2003 - 262 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration;...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration . . . Newton's metaphor here is very important. He says that time "flows", perhaps... | |
 | Abhay Ashtekar, Robert S. Cohen, Don Howard, J. Renn, S. Sarkar, A. Shimony - Science - 2003 - 680 pages
...time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such a measure... | |
 | Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla - Philosophy - 2004 - 228 pages
...Scholium to Definition VIII, of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called 'duration';...is some sensible and external (whether accurate or inequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time,... | |
 | Christine Ledger, Stephen Pickard - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 268 pages
...mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably and without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent and common 5. Augustine, The City of God, translated by Marcus Dods (New York: Random House. 1950). XI.6, 350.... | |
 | Ellwood Johnson - Puritan movements in literature - 2005 - 300 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration:...true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year. (Principia 6) The same comparison is made between absolute space and relative space. As duration is... | |
 | Gregory Preston - Religion - 2005 - 110 pages
...Relative, Apparent, and Common, 18Time is some sensible and external, (whether accurate or unequlable), measure of Duration by the means of motion, which...True time; such as an Hour, a Day, a Month, a Year For, the natural days, are truly unequal, though they are commonly considered as equal, and used for... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 2005 - 384 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without relation of anything external, and by another name is called 'duration';...is some sensible and external (whether accurate or equable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time, such... | |
 | David Bostock - Philosophy - 2006 - 212 pages
...acceptable length for publication, I had to remove all references to Annas (1975). sensible and external measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time' (Newton, Principia, Scholium I). (For example, the distinction is twice quoted by White 1992: 75 and... | |
 | Jonathan Feinstein - Business & Economics - 2006 - 592 pages
...time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such a measure... | |
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate... 
